jacksonianmarch

That's some serious BS there man. Cannot be calling that s*** in the 9th

He just turned 28 5 days ago. He plays average defense, has light tower power, and has consistently been able to take pitches and walk. Moving him to Fenway would most likely see him hit 30HR with 100RBI. The guy also is pretty healthy, as he's on pace for his 5th straight season of playing 149+ games. I know people want to look at Hanley and make a comparison, but Hanley was asked to play a new position, has been a cancer in the clubhouse and has a history of being injured on the regular. This guy is different and could be a difference maker in your clubhouse. I honestly think job #1 for Dombrowski will be to get an ace. And I don't think Henry will give him the $200+ mil he would need to secure a 28-31 yr old ace. He'll have to get creative to get his ace. But Henry would have no issue throwing around the $150 mil he'd need to get Upton.

I honestly think the sox are going to try and deal for a front line starter. I honestly believe that Betts will be packaged with a guy like Owens and you'll see Matt Harvey or Syndergaard or DeGrom in Boston. Then I could see you guys in the mix for Upton to take LF. Your OF in 2016 would be Upton, JBJ, Castillo and your rotation would be headlined by Harvey

Kimmi, you're giving me a pass? Why thank you so much dearie, lol. What I wrote was correct. His moves fell incredibly flat. You cannot have high profile move after high profile move flop. And the "experts" had the sox winning the division mostly because the division was supposed to be a gigantic chasm of suck. Nobody expected NY to be as good as they have been all season and nobody expected Toronto to go all in and make the right moves at the right time. Up until a week ago, you had 4 of the 5 teams in the division over .500. The "experts" were wrong again. a700 was right. The team was built to be an offensive machine, which is something they really have become over the last 2 months, but they also were built to require career seasons from their rotation. Which they didn't get. This was Ben's issue. You cannot dismantle a phenomenal pitching staff and then have the staff be your downfall

We're such a streaky team. We got through 10 day offensive runs unseen in these parts in decades then go in the bag for a month. I am hoping our offense is coming back for the stretch run. Time to bring the lumber to the Bean

Kimmi, is Ben your brother or something? Lets just look at some interesting tidbits from last offseason. Flush with cash, the sox were looking basically at a clean drawing board. Their longest signed player was their 2b, who even in a slightly diminished capacity was still an above average to elite player. They had a system brimming with talent. Their CFer and SS already had their feet wet in the system. Basically, they were able to shed most bad money and had a system on the up and up. So how did this thing go wrong? I can tell you why. They went apeshit over a piss poor free agent market. Instead of preaching patience and prudence, they shot their load for guys who had either a bad track record or no track record. De la Rosa and Webster had value last offseason. Why would you package them together to get a lefty homer prone bad chemistry guy trending in the wrong direction? Miley might be somewhat productive, but he was a bad fit from day 1. And if you think I'm a hypocrite, read my posts about his acquisition when it happened. I panned it and was right in doing so. Miley was a bad fit in the clubhouse, a bad fit to the park and was trending in the wrong direction. Now he's basically a #5 who is signed to an extension and is worth nothing to other clubs. You are stuck with him. Pablo Sandoval was trending downward in terms of offensive production. His weight was trending upward. He was a clubhouse cancer in SF. The only thing going for him was that he was marketable and mashed in the playoffs. So throw 5 yrs $95 mil at him? Bad fit, bad trend, bad length of deal. Bad everything Hanley Ramirez has trouble staying on the field. Hanley Ramirez is a s***** clubhouse guy and everyone who let him walk was happy to let him walk. What about his demeanor screamed SIGN THIS GUY AND HAVE HIM LEARN A NEW POSITION! He also has trouble staying on the field. This one is the least defensible. The guy has always been a powderkeg and an ******* in the clubhouse. SO lets sign him and make him our #4 hitter and have him learn LF in Fenway? f***ing retarded. Rick Porcello was a nice little pitcher in Detroit. He was a #4 or 5 there and basically pitched as a #4 or 5. Last yr, he was dominant until Aug 1 then s*** the bed and basically was left without a spot in the playoffs. He is also a contact pitcher. What made Ben think he was the guy to take the reigns as the new ace in Fenway, especially knowing that Panda was a defensive time bomb and Bogaerts was coming off a poor defensive season? So lets deal a real LFer in Cespedes (who looks WAY better than Ramirez) and deal him for a pitcher who is a good back end of the rotation guy, then lets sign him like an ace and proclaim him the ace. Then we will watch him implode and dread the next 5 years. Guys, Ben might be an analytics guy and he might be trying to find a diamond in the rough. The problem is, finding a diamond in the rough requires you to go through a lot of rough. This is Boston. This is a big market. This isn't Pittsburgh. The idea of trying to find hidden value and then overpaying for that value and basically getting negative value makes no sense. Pay for the known commodity and stop saddling yourselves with dumb contracts on guys who could have been hitting their stride, but probably weren't. Cherington hit on a bunch of guys prior to 2013. But the fall from grace and the absolute disaster left is one of the worst GM jobs of all time. I am sorry Kim, but he deserved to be canned

I'm only going off what I've heard. Could be totally bogus, but there was a story earlier in the year about how Remy was sick of how slovenly Orsillo kept the booth and that there was some tension between them going back over the past few seasons. This was not unexpected for me.

I've heard rumblings that he and Remy weren't getting along.

I think Dombrowski is going to package Betts with a guy like Devers and go after one of the Mets front line arms. I wouldn't be surprised if Harvey was the ace of your squad next yr

I am intrigued to see what Dombrowski does. I highly, highly doubt that JBJ, Betts, and Castillo will be your starting OF next yr. I expect a bold move on his part. The boldest of moves would be to deal Betts for a front line starter. I don't think just Betts would be enough for a truly elite talent, but Betts plus some prospects might get the job done. I expect Hanley to be your 3b, Panda to be your 1b, JBJ to be your CF, Rusney to be in a COF spot and another acquisition to be your LFer. I know Shaw has looked good, but he doesn't have the track record to start the year as your 1b.

YOTN, my retort wasn't aimed at you. I said Posada is a borderline HOF case. But Parrish doesn't sniff Posada's overall value offensively. Parrish's career OPS was nearly 100 points below Jorge's. Parrish was a great defender, though, which closed the WAR gap, but Posada still had him by 3 wins over his career. Bleacher report did a top 10 catchers of all time and had him 10th, right behind another HOF snub in Torre. The only other guy on the list who isn't in the HOF isn't eligible yet (Pudge). Williams was HOF worthy for 7 seasons, which isn't long enough, IMO to warrant a Hall Plaque. It is long enough, especially with 4 titles, to warrant a number being retired.

Eovaldi has looked like a new pitcher since he started re-implementing his splitter. They ran a story on him that about 6 weeks ago, McCann altered his splitter grip allowing for better control and movement. This has forced hitters to respect the splitter down, which has made his high fastball much more deadly. He has the tools to be an ace and he is finally trending in that direction

Nice comeback.

YOTN, those numbers are all time for catchers

Lester and Pettitte are phenomenal comps. I think Lester at his best reached a higher peak because his stuff was more dominant. I think Lester has a LOT to prove to beat his consistency, though.

CC might be done for his career now man. That knee was bone on bone and he decided not to undergo microfracture surgery. If he undergoes that, he's done. I hope he is done. I loved CC and admire his efforts in getting us #27. But he has been a shell of himself since his first knee surgery. I saw the velo return this year, but the fact that he cannot keep the ball down really shows that his lower half just isn't there. Take your money CC and retire. The Yankees have the contract insured anyway. We do not need you anymore, no need to keep fighting the pain to suck ass on the hill.

Jeter and Rivera are obvious, so I wont even state their cases. Posada is a borderline HOFer who won 5 titles, 4 as a starting catcher for us. He was 10th all time in HR, 13th all time in RBI, 7th all time in OBP, 7th all time in SLG, and 4th all time in OPS for catchers. He was an all time great catcher who deserves mention for the HOF. He also deserves to have his # retired. He won, he put up the counting stats, he was a leader. His defense was definitely sub par, but the other stuff outweighs that significantly

And I find it interesting how many people s*** on NY for retiring the numbers. Bernie was our best hitter from 95-02, otherwise known as the golden years. He had a 7 year run of .300+BA and .900+OPS which just so happened to coincide with winning 4 titles. Add to that the .850 career playoff OPS along with 22HR and 80RBI in 121 games and you have a great player. Maybe not HOF worthy, but definitely worthy of number retirement

Guys, we won 5 titles with Pettitte and he was our most consistent pitcher throughout. Yes, there is the PED admission, but this isn't the HOF. He's 3rd in wins, 1st in K's, and 1st in playoff wins in Yankee history. He had 8 200IP seasons as a Yankee and 2 seasons where he was over 190IP. The guy was very, very consistent in an age where pitching consistency was non-existant.

I think Severino has carved out a role here. He looks like he belongs and his stuff is ace level. For next year, they are going to have too many starters based on who is under control. That being said, I doubt they all come to camp. As it stands... 1. Tanaka 2. Pineda 3. Eovaldi 4. Severino 5. Nova 6. Sabathia 7. Mitchell 8. Warren And we do have some more reinforcements with Lail making the jump all the way to AAA. I have a feeling we deal off some of the redundancy and maybe sign a sure fire ace a la Price or Cueto, but who knows

Dombrowski will move some guys. Castillo looks like he can play and Betts is your prototypical 5 tool athlete. Having JBJ around and hitting adds to a stockpile. That being said, I think Dave tells Hanley to go f*** himself and move back to the infield. I also think he'll unload Panda by eating half his contract

Dombrowski took the worst non expansion team in history and turned them into perennial contenders in 3 years. From 06-14, they were either in the playoffs or on the cusp in every year. From worst AL team ever to 9 years of sustained great play is not a bad thing. With the purse open and the farm system talented, he'll make a lot of moves. You'll be better the next two seasons, but come 2018, you'll be a perennial playoff contender

You guys who are whining about this are f***ing crazy. The sox are a gigantic mess on the big league side yet have a lot of minor league talent coming down the pipe. And Dombrowski is an absolute expert at selling prospects high and picking which ones will s*** the bed. Dombrowski was GM of the Marlins and was building a farm on a limited budget when he got the mandate to win now in 1997. He did. He went out and signed the best players available and melded them with burgeoning talent and won it all. He then was forced to deal off the entire crew he brought in. The talent he brought in didn't pop under his direction, but it did win a title in 2003. He drafted Josh Beckett. He dealt Al Leiter to get AJ Burnett. Looper, the closer was acquired for Renteria. Penny was acquired for Mantei. Lee was acquired for Kevin Brown. He dealt for Mike Lowell. He signed Miguel Cabrera as a INTL FA. He is a guy who built a team and won a title, dismantled that team, and with the parts he acquired allowed the club to win a year after he left. As the GM of the Tigers, he endured the second worst season ever in 2002. But that year, he built. He drafted Granderson and Zumaya in 02. Verlander selected in 04. He dealt for Carlos Guillen and signed Magglio Ordonez and Pudge. By 2006, he was in the world series. He retooled the team time and again, trading talented young players and getting either more talent in return or established players who dominated. His deal for Miguel Cabrera was a stroke of genius. Cabrera came with Willis, but getting the best hitter in baseball for a failed starter and a late blooming CFer was awesome. He struck gold again by dealing former top prospect Jacob Turner for Anibal Sanchez and Omar Infante. He got Austin Jackson and Max Scherzer for Curtis Granderson. He got Doug Fister for a song. He dealt a guy who eventually lost his shoulder for Price and then got two top prospects for him this year. The guy is okay with developing talent but absolutely awesome at dealing away guys he doesn't think will be good. If it wasn't for Ilitch being 93 and wanting to WIN NOW!!! he probably would still be there. I mourn this decision, because I think Dombrowski has the track record and now the autonomy to turn your team around

My only issue with Bird is that he seems injury prone. The talent is there and we sure need him. I think Tex ends up on the DL and this kid gets a nice run. He is probably here to stay with ARod looking old and Tex injured

What he did with a Tigers team that sucked gigantic monkey cock in 2003 and turned them in the AL pennant winning 2006 team was a stroke of genius. He knows how to rebuild. Don't expect a first place turnaround. But you'll be regular contenders probably by 2017-2018